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Afghanistan - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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Afghanistan - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
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Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably
been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades.
After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into
an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the
world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new
phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a
harsh, repressive version of Islamic law. Infamously, the sheltered
Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9/11 Towers ushered in the Global
War on Terror and drew tens of thousands of American troops to the
country, where they remain today. In Afghanistan: What Everyone
Needs to Know (R), leading scholar Barnett R. Rubin provides an
overview of this complicated nation. After providing a concise
history of Afghanistan, he explores the various peoples and
cultures of the country and its relations with neighbors like
Pakistan and Iran. He also provides an authoritative overview of
the conflicts that have plagued the country since the Soviet
invasion. Both wide-ranging and pithy, this book explains why
Afghanistan matters and what its possible future might look like.
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